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altima_neo, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?
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Motorola KRZR

God that phone sucked. It was so slow. I always wondered why Gameboy could be so damned fast, yet a phone with a much more powerful soc struggled just to bring up my contacts? They needed video game devs making the phone OS.

Asnabel, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Nokia E52 And before that Sony Ericsson W200 And even before that Mitsubishi M320

pyrflie, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Still rocking a burner flip phone after more than a decade.

I won’t change until the network no longer supports them. Then I will likely go dark.

fritobugger2017, in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?

I stopped wearing a watch completely until the exercise/sleep/fitness trackers and smart watches got fairly good. I was a big watch guy before nice Seiko, Citizen, Patek Philippe, and Breitling watches but then everything had a clock on it. My phone, my laptop, etc. No reason to have this expensive thing on my wrist getting banged up as I go through the day. Now I have a Huawei GT3 Pro because it has good sleep and fitness trackers plus the EKG and blood O2 level checks. It controls my music at the gym and the timer works well in the kitchen plus the flash light is extra handy.

ZosoRocks3, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

A Samsung F400,it was a slider that slid up to reveal the number pad and down to reveal a speaker. Was great for music, don’t remember much more about it. Moved on to the Blackberry Bold after that as far as I remember.

666dollarfootlong, (edited ) in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Nokia 5228, those times were great when friends sent me some music using the bluetooth

roterkern70, in I need advice on getting a cheap notebook for my daughter for online school.

I recently got a second hand mid 2012 Macbook Pro for roughly 150 USD. I live in a third world country and I would call that a good deal. It has 8GB ram, 250GB SSD. 3rd gen Intel CPU but gets the job done.

I use PhotoShop very much, besides school work. You can maybe find something similar on eBay.

roterkern70,

And good thing about 2012 and early models is that you can upgrade parts. Maybe find a 4GB model for cheaper and upgrade it.

Lastly it gives me about 4 hours of battery life, doing school work (presentations, documents). If I use PhotoShop, it lasts 2 hours and I call it a day.

AtmaJnana,

You can upgrade parts , but not the OS.

roterkern70,

Kind of. Latest releases aren’t supported officially but you can safely install Monterey (10.12) with OCLP. No data & performance loss.

FlyingSquid,
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I would guess the battery on a 2012 MBP is worthless. I have a 2015 Air and the battery is basically gone. I’d also be worried about a computer that old lasting through the semester. I don’t want to take that kind of risk, but thanks.

roterkern70,

You are very right. It only gets the job done but that’s about it. Seeing new Macbooks going on for hours and hours, it’s impressive.

AceQuorthon, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Some Sony Ericsson Xperia with a slideout keyboard. Was shocked how much of a dumb brick it was compared to my iPod Touch I got at the same time.

worsedoughnut, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?
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I also had the Alias 2, and then it became my mom’s phone after I moved on to my first smartphone (HTC One M7). Loved that stupid double flipping thing to death, such a great design with the e-paper or w/e for the buttons so they could change for the different perspective / context.

Threeme2189, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Sony Ericsson k610i -> Samsung Galaxy S2

I really like the Galaxy. It was a really good size for a smartphone.

fne8w2ah, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Sony Ericsson T700.

Yoz, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Nokia 1100

cousinofjah, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?
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I had a Motorola StarTac, but I also had a plug-in organizer that I could import my contacts and initiate calls with. On top of that I had a cable that that I could tether my iPaq to by dialing . My next phone was a Palm Treo.

Aku, in Gifts for young kids who are really into airplanes?

Maybe one of those paper airplane building books.

bestusername,
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This!

My kids have had a few of these over the years and they’re great. At 3-4yrs, they’ll needs some help with instructions and folding, but it’s still a great gift.

Drusas,

Thank you, that sounds like a great idea!

CM400,

Someone also makes one of those “page-a-day” calendars with instructions for a new plane every day, typically with designs printed on them so the planes look cool after being folded.

intensely_human,

I helped a friend’s daughter make paper airplanes once. She was all excited about making all sorts of new airplanes but none of them were flying.

So over the course of a few weeks I had her repeat the same basic airplane again and again, until she mastered it. At first she hated the idea of going back and doing the same airplane again, but as her folds got better and her airplanes started to fly better, she got really into it.

The grin that spread over her face when she realized she could get better at things was amazing.

And she was six. I’m not sure if an airplane a day would be appropriate for a three year old.

slazer2au, in What's the name of the belief that gods/entities are quasi-semtient memes (the linguistic term, not the cultural term) in the same manner that corporations and governments are considered people?

There isn’t?

that corporations and governments are considered people?"

Also, they aren’t. That was a news media taking what a judge said and misinterpreting it.

lvxferre, (edited )
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Also, they aren’t. That was a news media taking what a judge said and misinterpreting it.

I don’t know which judge from which government you’re talking about, but the concept of juridical person is widely used across the world. Specially by governments with civil/Roman law. It’s basically a legal tool to assign responsibilities and rights to abstract concepts.

It’s also descriptively useful to explain why corporations/governments often act in a way that the actual people (i.e. human beings) behind them wouldn’t.

intensely_human,

It’s also the root of the word “corporation”. An incorporated business is a business which has been given a body.

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